Flinxycakes

(This is a work in progress at the moment so please bear with us.)

A blog dedicated to the combined art/writing/other projects and general antics of Flinx ( @flinxypie ) and Fable ( @thatmooncake ) which will include illustrations, silly comics and other ramblings/general chatter related to Lucidity and Lack Thereof (part of our long and perilous mercy ending AU for Nexus from SAMS) and any other projects we come up with together.

Tags will follow as we add content to the page so watch this space!

You can also send us asks relating to any of our combined projects from our ask box here. Respectful words and curious questions are most welcome! Please bear in mind that any rude or disrespectful asks will be deleted on sight and won’t be read or posted here.

He might be a bit bigger now but his badness level is still surprisingly high for his size!

Oh man, what can we give you…

- He gets cold easily, especially for someone who’s holed himself up in a drafty old castle. ESPECIALLY for a Sun.

- He’s a lying liar who lies (to you, to me, to the cast, to himself)

- Speaking of, for someone who “doesn’t care too much”, he certainly feels the need to disclaim it a whole awful lot.

- He doesn’t eat much, but when he does, it’s usually the blandest and worst foods because he hates himself. Nex was right to do a double take when he gave him a cookie.

- He originally took better care of himself, but now he’s a bit worse for wear. It’s easy not to notice it, but when you do, you realise he’s kind of like a vampire still hanging around in old Victorian clothing because he never got around to actually doing anything about it.

- The chips on his rays are very sensitive. Kind of like if you break a tooth.

POV: the consequence of your actions has just entered their boss battle era.

Remember to introduce your cats slowly by keeping them separated at first and using lots of positive reinforcement.

Because that's kinda what I do with my fics. One usually ends up with four different paths from a certain moment because I also liked the way it would go😭

Hello!

Yessss that is pretty much what is happening :3c a million branches, a million possibilities!

We sorta thought of IO like another path - that if Sun and Nexus got to talk it out before the nsp went too far, before the villain arc really kicked off into full swing, would Nexus ever hear Sun out? What would that look like? How would Sun coax Nexus - stubborn impossible being that he is during his villain arc - back to the house? How would everybody (including him) take to him staying? It wouldn’t be easy, sure, but the idea of it being “completely impossible” defeats the purpose of the multiverse for us. And so we ran with it! And now we have IO where Sun is taking baby steps to try to rehabilitate his wet cat of a brother.

Much thank! ✨ Muffin seems pretty enthused about Nexus’ return to the house too :>

Step one: acquire emotionally volatile wet cat of a(n ex?-)brother.

Step two: add blanket.

Outrunning your own trauma? In this economy?

Maybe I'll work with someone too in the future. I wish I could, mostly on fnaf things since it's my biggest hyperfixation🥹

Hello!

We do a mix of both! We discuss and plan what happens in each chapter and then take turns writing sections, editing sections and stitch them all together and then we both read it to make sure it all flows how we want it and/or make any last minute adjustments. Sometimes we roleplay segments too to figure out the mood/dialogue.

We do the same for drawing- we'll discuss what we want to portray and then one of us will sketch, the other lineart and colour and then the other will do a bunch of the finalising and effects, and the next one will be the other way around!

Some of the asks are drawn by one of us when only one of us has the time <3

Happy Birthday Bro Bro!

A real shame about the party crasher trio though, sorry about that.

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but I’m burning with curiosity. How do you two manage to create such a synchronized creative masterpiece? Do you map out your narratives with an architect’s precision, ensuring every single detail of your stunning mosaics has a purpose from start to finish? Or perhaps you begin with just a whisper of a plot, letting each chapter flow from point A to point B, written on the wings of pure inspiration? Or are you, by chance, from that rare breed of writers who don’t command the story, but rather surf its currents, wielding nothing but their writerly prowess and profound affection for the world and characters to keep from being pulled under?

Is it a delicate balancing act to find common ground when creating together? Do you often find yourselves engaged in passionate debates where the truth emerges? Or perhaps you are masters of different realms of writing, each tending to your own strengths without stepping on the other’s toes? Or, akin to a jazz duo, do you simultaneously polish the same document, building upon and developing each other’s thoughts? I would be beside myself with delight to hear the secrets of your craft, if you’d be so generous as to share!~

By the way, speaking of planning, alas, some elements will require a little more patience. Despite all my efforts to bring my tiny headcanon to life both well and quickly, if I try to push myself even a fraction harder, I will quite literally pass out from sheer exhaustion. So, please, grant me this small indulgence – this sliver of selfishness in the form of extra time. What awaits you is something truly astonishing. I guarantee it~

And since I missed the window for a proper “Coming Soon” on April Fool’s Day, I have something else. If your readers have even the vaguest notions about Nexus’s and Dark Sun’s culinary preferences, then know that for Ruin, beyond a fondness for tea, little has been revealed. Well then, an unholy, mischaracterized vision from Ava Z, meant as a bit of April Fool’s fun, might just bring a smile to your faces, if not necessarily inspiration.

Wishing you the most wonderful of moods~

Hello Dono~! 👋

Ooooh, this hasn’t been asked before! But we’re more than happy to answer! :)

For the first part of your question, …it’s a little bit of everything. We plan out the main beats of the story first, anything vital- like the start, the end, important character developments to get from A to B, any emotional arcs or character introductions, and we plot roughly where we want those to fall. Some of them get written up in rough really early on and then tweaked as we get closer to fitting them in to make sure they tie in with everything else we’ve added in between.

The rest is a bit looser, we talk a lot about the bits we want to expand on, which of the characters needs to have a bit more presence and any spontaneous bits of scene we want to add in.

And then finally, as we’re writing, the characters often command themselves, changing the original outline, and we ride that wave (and end up extending the chapter far beyond what we expected!)

As to the second part of your question … It’s a still a little of everything- but we don’t have any problem finding common ground. We most definitely act as a jazz duo as you so eloquently described it- there are scenes or topics that one of us might specialise in and we’ll pick up those bits primarily while the other polishes them or vice versa, but it’s a beautifully even split.

It goes through several layers of editing, we’ll both be writing different sections, pass to the other for editing and swap- and then often a little more is added until we’re both happy and it flows as one piece!

We spend a long time talking about a lot of concepts- many don’t make it to the finished product or are just for fun, but we often get lightning bolts of inspiration and we’re like “okay hear me out, so in this bit…” and we roll from there.